Although the involuntary manslaughter case against him was dismissed in July, Alec Baldwin still wants to tell his side of the 2021 Rust on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The Oscar nominee said there’s “another phase” to come in the next couple months as he seeks to “expose what really happened” on the New Mexico set, where Hutchins and writer/director Joel Souza were shot when Baldwin’s prop revolver discharged live rounds.
“I think there’s more to come,” he explained on David Duchovny’s Fail Better podcast. “There’s more to come, but the ‘more to come’ is now my effort, and it’s going to be undeniably a successful effort, to raise and to expose what really happened. I was counterpunching. I was on the defensive. I was being accused. I was being indicted.”
Baldwin said the press “suppressed every story that could benefit me and amplified every story that could hurt me. This has been for three years. And the truth of what happened has never been told, never.”
“We have more s— that’s going to come out in ensuing legal filings and so forth,” Baldwin told Duchovny. “These last three years, people have just dined out. Because in this country, when people hate you on that level, they want three things: They want you to die. The second thing is, they want you to go to prison. These political crowds, both sides, they love to see their enemies put in prisons for years because prison is like a living hell. And the third thing is, they want you canceled, which is like being in prison or being dead, because you roam the earth and you’re just invisible.”
Alec Baldwin celebrates at his dismissed Rust trial on July 12, 2024.
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Noting that “things are coming back my way” professionally, Baldwin added, “There’s so much of this case that is not known because we didn’t have a full trial.”
Although he’s “grateful” the judge dismissed the case with prejudice, Baldwin thinks getting a solid verdict would have been “a little bit better,” as his legal team had “troves of things to present.”
Baldwin said he’s pursuing “another phase” in bringing the truth to light in the next “couple months” after the holidays, adding: “I’m going to take a break. I don’t want to talk about this for a while. I want to kind of take a nap.”
On July 12, New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said in her ruling that the state failed “to disclose critical evidence to the defendant,” dismissing the case against Baldwin and ruling it cannot be reopened.
